It crashed (the window disappeared without warning or explanation) when I created an account. I opened it again and logged on with my new account (which it had apparently managed to create, despite crashing). I was able to play the game for about five seconds before it crashed again.

I restarted the game from the command line in order to get error messages. This is what it said:

Hmm, I fear this is the Linux attitude coming out. Why make something easy for others when you can make it difficult?

Whose time is more important, that of a developer or that of a legion of users? Why, that of a developer, of course! Because I'm a developer and I don't want to waste two minutes of my time by saving two minutes of hundreds of people's time!

Great attitude.

ElvenProgrammer wrote:In fact you shouldn't since it was clearly stated in the updater news,

Nope. It said "config.xml". It did not say where such a file might be.

ElvenProgrammer wrote: or you should get the latest version which doesn't require editing.

I installed the most recent version available in my Linux distro's Synaptic repository. PCLinuxOS users are instructed never to install any third-party programs until we are experts.

Nevertheless, (as I explained above, if you had read it) I decided to take a chance and download the source code and compile it. I have already explained how this failed.

Modanung wrote:I don't see how one would become an expert without training intermediate action.

That's why sometimes break the rules and experiment. I've screwed up the computer twice, but with proper backups it's no big issue.

My advice: Use Arch Linux. Doesn't hold your hand, is hard to break and is simple and effective. Teaches you far faster and has a friendly community to help you with issues provided that you're willing to read the wiki and the forums. Also it's getting hard to find software, for which there isn't a package in Arch.

[root@localhost tmw-0.0.22]# make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Before running configure and make be sure to run "./autogen.sh". When you need detailed instructions you can refer to INSTALL file.

Chamaeleon wrote:Hmm, I fear this is the Linux attitude coming out. Why make something easy for others when you can make it difficult?

Whose time is more important, that of a developer or that of a legion of users? Why, that of a developer, of course! Because I'm a developer and I don't want to waste two minutes of my time by saving two minutes of hundreds of people's time!

Great attitude.

And just for sake of clarity, I'm a Windows user, so no Linux attitude here. If you're said to find a file, you usually search it. We don't know what's the user OS, so we can't say where the file is, but let the user find it knowing how its OS works.

Chamaeleon wrote:Whose time is more important, that of a developer or that of a legion of users? Why, that of a developer, of course! Because I'm a developer and I don't want to waste two minutes of my time by saving two minutes of hundreds of people's time!

Great attitude.

ElvenProgrammer wrote:In fact you shouldn't since it was clearly stated in the updater news,

Nope. It said "config.xml". It did not say where such a file might be.

About spending time to inform the users: we've had an update notice (including details on where to find the file) up for a few weeks in both a special notice on the website as well as the news displayed on client startup. Only after the 0.0.22 release was available, which defaults to the new updatehost value, we removed the notice on the website and replaced it with a more brief note accompanying the 0.0.22 announcement. Meanwhile, the in-game notice is still in place and does indicate the location of the config file to anybody who still has to edit it.

As for the above error. While you may say that Guichan 0.5.0 is indeed installed, this doesn't change the fact that the compiler couldn't find it. Whenever such a problem occurs when you run configure, check the file "config.log" in the same directory for more detailed information on what went wrong.

Note that the latest release, 0.0.22.1, requires Guichan 0.6.0. If your distribution doesn't have this yet (likely), then you can stick with version 0.0.22. In any case, your current version (0.0.21) is very outdated and bound to give you some compatibility problems. You can also try urging your distribution to update their version of TMW.